The Škoda Roomster is a five-door five-seat multi-purpose, leisure activity vehicle, produced since 2006. A two-door two-seat panel van version is sold since 2007 under the badge Škoda Praktik. The Roomster is fundamentally based on the VW A4 (PQ34) platform and shares components with the Škoda Octavia and the Škoda Fabia. The name is a combination of the words 'Room' and 'Roadster'.

The origin of Skoda Auto goes back to 1895. Václav Laurin, a mechanic, and Václav Klement, book-seller, both shared a passion for bicycles. When Klement tried to get spare parts to fix is bicycle and wrote to the manufacturer in Czech, he got an unfawl reply asking him to write in a language they could understand. In that moment, the two Czechs founded Laurin & Klement and started to produce bicycles under the patriotic name: Slavia.